{"id":10240,"date":"2011-10-03T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=10240"},"modified":"2011-10-03T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2011-10-03T15:58:07","slug":"ghostly-affinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/10\/ghostly-affinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostly Affinity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10241\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/112.jpg?resize=118%2C98\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/112.jpg?w=247&amp;ssl=1 247w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/112.jpg?resize=96%2C79&amp;ssl=1 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 118px) 100vw, 118px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A friend thinks he might have encountered a ghost, indirectly, having snapped a picture which includes a strange ghostly figure. I advised that he should share merits with the ghost to aid a good rebirth, in case the photographed is really a ghost, since he has affinity with the ghost. He exclaimed at first that he doesn&#8217;t want any affinity with ghosts, as they can be scary. Of course, like most of us, he prefers not to encounter any ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>I replied that the fact that he snapped the picture, there is already some affinity. It isn&#8217;t about creating affinity from scratch or hoping to have a scary encounter. If you have already seen a human, it doesn&#8217;t make sense to say you don&#8217;t have affinity with that human, because if so, you would not have seen the person in the first place. Affinity cannot be severed anyway; it can only be transformed for better or worse, or remain as it is. It&#8217;s important to help when we have some affinity, because the ones needing help might not have much affinity with others who can help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend thinks he might have encountered a ghost, indirectly, having snapped a picture which includes a strange ghostly figure&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[517,178,255],"class_list":["post-10240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-affinity","tag-ghost","tag-merits","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}